Frequently asked questions regarding the Virtual General Meeting

1. How can shareholders follow the Virtual General Meeting?

Shareholders who are registered in the share register can use their shareholder number and the associated initial password that they receive with the invitation to the Virtual General Meeting - or with their already assigned individual password - on November 3, 2020 via our shareholder portal at https://www.osram- group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting and follow the entire Virtual General Meeting live.

The speeches by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Peter Bauer, and the Chairman of the Management Board, Dr. Olaf Berlien, are accessible to everyone on the Internet at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting without the need for access data. Recordings of the speeches will afterwards be available on the same website. The manuscripts will be made available to everyone in advance on October 28, 2020 on the Internet at https://www.osram- group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting.

2. How can I exercise my voting rights as a shareholder?

If you want to exercise your voting rights in the Virtual General Meeting, you must have registered by midnight (CET) on October 27, 2020 (registration deadline) (i) by post at the address OSRAM Licht AG, c/o Computershare Operations Center, 80249 Munich, (ii) by fax to +49 (0) 89 30903-74675, (iii) by email at anmeldestelle@computershare.de or (iv) via the shareholder portal at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting. The shares held in the share register at the end of October 27, 2020 are decisive for the exercise of your voting rights.

Absentee voting (electronically or by post, fax or email)

You can vote by absentee voting. Absentee voting is possible by post, fax or e-mail using the registration form that has been sent to you as well as electronically in the shareholder portal at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting.

Absentee voting via the shareholder portal

Please go to the Company's website at https://www.osram- group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting and follow the link under the heading "Shareholder Portal"". After entering your shareholder number and the corresponding initial password or your self-assigned access password, then select "Registration and postal vote". In the subsequent dialogue, you can cast your vote on the Agenda Items and any countermotions and election proposals that have been made available.

If necessary, changes to the absentee voting can be made via the shareholder portal on the day of the General Meeting until the beginning of the voting. The prerequisite for this is that the votes have been registered for the Virtual General Meeting by

midnight (CET) on October 27, 2020. Registration is also possible via the shareholder portal at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting. To use the shareholder portal you need your shareholder number and the corresponding initial password or your self-assigned password.

Authorized representatives, in particular the proxies nominated by the company

You can authorize the proxy nominated by the company, an intermediary, a shareholders' association, a proxy advisor or another person you trust as a representative to exercise your votes. The Company-nominated proxies of our Company, who are bound exclusively by your instructions, will be pleased to accept your authorization. Authorization is possible either via the shareholder portal at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting or by post, fax or e-mail. The shareholders are asked to use the registration form that will be sent to you with the invitation to the General Meeting.

Authorized persons require an access number and the associated password for electronic voting. As soon as shareholders have issued a power of attorney, the proxy receives a voting card with access data to the shareholder portal.

You will find more detailed information on voting via proxy below.

Power of attorney to the proxies nominated by the company via the shareholder portal

Please go to the Company's website at https://www.osram- group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting and follow the link under the heading "Shareholder Portal". After entering your shareholder number and your individual access number or your self-assigned access password, you then select "Registration and power of attorney Instructions to the proxies appointed by the Company". In the subsequent dialog, you must then issue instructions on the agenda and on any countermotions and election proposals made available to the proxies.

Authorization of a third party via the shareholder portal

Please go to the Company's website at https://www.osram- group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting and follow the link under the heading "Shareholder Portal". After entering your shareholder number and your individual access number or your self-assigned access password, then select "Registration and representation by a third-party proxy". In the subsequent dialog, you can authorize a third person to exercise your shareholder rights. This person will then receive access data for the shareholder portal.

Power of attorney to a bank or a shareholders' association via the shareholder portal

You can also authorize credit institutions or shareholders' associations activated for the shareholder portal via the shareholder portal. Please go to the Company's website at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting and click on the link under the heading "Shareholder Portal". After entering your shareholder number and access password, then select "Registration and power of attorney with instructions to intermediary/shareholders' association/voting rights advisor, if applicable" and in the next step select the desired bank or shareholders' association from the drop-down menu.

In the subsequent dialog, you can issue instructions on the agenda and any countermotions and election proposals that have been made available after authorizing the selected credit institution or the selected shareholders' association.

If the institute or the shareholders' association has published a voting proposal, you will also find information on this proposal there.

If you would like to authorize a bank or a shareholders' association that is not activated for the shareholder portal to represent your votes, we will be happy to send you a proxy form on request. Please use the contact details of the shareholder hotline for this purpose. You can obtain the proxy form (which is included in the registration form) from the Internet address https://www.osram- group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting.

Authorized representatives (with the exception of the proxies nominated by the company) cannot physically attend the General Meeting. They can only exercise the voting rights for shareholders represented by them by absentee voting or by granting (sub) powers of attorney to the proxies appointed by the company.

3. Doesn't a General Meeting in Germany have to be held as a physical event?

The law to mitigate the consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic, which came into force on March 28, 2020, allows a virtual general meeting to be held in the year 2020 without the physical presence of shareholders or their proxies.

4. Are OSRAM shares blocked when registering for the Virtual General Meeting?

No. A shareholder's registration to attend the General Meeting will not result in his or her shares being blocked. In other words, even after registering, shareholders will still have full control over their shares and what they do with them. The possibility to connect to the General Meeting and to exercise shareholder rights, in particular the right to vote, is determined on the basis of the number of shares entered in the Company's share register on the date of the General Meeting. Instructions to amend the Company share register received during the period from October 28, 2020 up to and November 3, 2020 (in each case including) will only be processed and implemented to take effect after the General Meeting on November 3, 2020. The technical record date is therefore midnight (CET) on October 27, 2020.

5. How can I see any countermotions and election proposals?

Countermotions and election proposals to be made accessible by shareholders to the Agenda Items, which will be received at the above address latest at midnight (CEST) on October 19, 2020, will be published on the Internet at https://www.osram- group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting, including the name of the shareholder and the reasons to be made accessible. There you will also find any statements from the administration.

6. How can I, as a shareholder, make use of the opportunity to ask questions?

Shareholders and their proxies, with the exception of the proxies nominated by the Company, have the opportunity to ask questions via electronic communication in accordance with Section 1 (2) No. 3 of the Law on Measures in Corporate, Cooperative, Association, Foundation and Condominium Law to Combat the Effects of the COVID 19 Pandemic of 27 March 2020. The option to ask questions is only available to shareholders or their proxies who have properly registered for the Virtual General Meeting. Questions can only be submitted electronically in the action portal at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting by midnight (CET) on Saturday, October 31, 2020. For the electronic submission of questions, shareholders who are already registered in the shareholder portal use their shareholder number and their personally assigned password. All other shareholders entered in the share register will receive their shareholder number and an initial password with the invitation letter for the Virtual General Meeting by post. Authorized persons use the received access number and the associated password to submit questions at https://www.osram-group.com/en/investors/annual-meeting. Please understand that we reserve the right to summarize questions and, if necessary, also select them.

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